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iii iiiiiiiiiiiii iii ~ Barnhart Agency, Inc. N ~ 212 West 13th Street Pueblo, CO 81003 • Fax (719) 543-1329 • Ph: (719) 543-1324 March 30, 1999 Mr. Jim Stevens Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Re: File No. M-77-195, Highway 291 Pit Hard Rock Paving and Redi-Mix, Inc. Dear Jim: RECEIVED MAR 31 1999 Division Of Minerals 6 Geology This letter is in response to the items of concern you mentioned in your inspection report of 2/3/99. I will address them in the same order as you presented them. Although it was not a compliance issue, you had some question as to what the intended pit boundary and area was meant to be. The operator would request that the pit azea be the 6.17 A delineated in the survey of I/4/99 by Arkansas Valley Surveying. As you stated, "the property appeas to be well defined by fences which would serve equally well as boundary mazkers for the permit azea." These fences will be used as the boundary mazkers. Item 1. Current $5,000.00 Financial Warranty appears insufficient. With the entire 6.17 A to be included in the pit area, the operator agrees that re-evaluation is probably necessary. The agreed upon amended Financial warranty will be posted by the operator in a timely mamier. Item 2. 1Vater seepage from the base of the highwall - if this involves permanent exposure of groundwater, the mining and/or reclamation plan must be modified. It is the operator's opinion that the water is "tail water" from area irrigation. Wells neaz the subject range Mont 40 to 100 feet in depth, which makes groundwater seem unlikely since the pit is a maximum of 15' deep. With Chaffee County approval, the operator made a small drainage Swale across the pit floor to allow the tail water to escape into the borrow pit north of the road on the south pit perimeter. Since that time, the pit has dried up, as evidenced by the attached photo, other photos to follow.. It is possible that some tail water may appeaz in the summer when irrigation starts, but it is definitely the operator's opiniorrEhat-this will be tail water -not grotndwater -and no plan modification is required. This would be in agreement with Board action, at the February meeting, on another similar pit close to this. "Your Brand of People"